Herman Miller Ocean Plastic Aeron Chair

Designed by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick in 1994, the Aeron chair is a productivity icon. It's also Herman Miller's top-selling seating solution, meaning it accounts for a lot of materials. The company has announced that its entire line of Aeron chairs is now being made using ocean-bound plastic, including a new Onyx Ultra Matte color that contains up to 2.5 pounds of the stuff. Herman Miller estimates these changes will result in over 150 tons of plastic being removed from the ocean per year, or the equivalent of 15 million plastic water bottles.